SHAFER, JOSEPH ERNEST: 1903-

The son of Otis Ernest and Ida March Taylor
Sharer,
Joseph Ernest Shafer
was born in Bluffton,
Ind., on April 25, 1903. He received the A.B. degree in 1925 from DePauw University and the degrees
of A.M. in 1929 and Ph.D. in 1932
from the University of Wisconsin. He married Emily Cornell
Marine on June 10, 1926, and they had two
children, Sue Elizabeth and Thayer Cornell.
Shafer
taught at the University of Wisconsin, 1929-32; the University of
Texas, 1932-35;
Bowling Green State University, 1935-46; and the University of New Hampshire,
1946-60. At Alaska Methodist
University he became professor of economies in 1960 and was appointed dean of the college of business administration and
economics in 1965.